Olivia Cooke Stars in Amazon’s Vanity Fair Television Adaptation

Olivia Cooke stars in Amazon’s Vanity Fair television adaptation

Amazon Studios has announced that Vanity Fair, the television adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic novel, will premiere on Friday, December 21, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the US. The seven-episode drama series stars actress Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One). Check out the key art for the series in the gallery below!

Gwyneth Hughes’ adaptation of Thackeray’s literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of “villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing”, takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.

Filmed in Budapest and London, the series originally premiered on ITV in the UK. Mammoth Screen’s Damien Timmer executive produces the series along with Strong, Gwyneth Hughes, Tom Mullens and ITV’s Polly Hill & Victoria Fea.